{"id":28100,"date":"2020-09-03T09:25:31","date_gmt":"2020-09-03T06:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=28100"},"modified":"2025-08-27T09:40:19","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T06:40:19","slug":"russian-woman-duped-by-scammer-selling-bitcoins-via-telegram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/russian-woman-duped-by-scammer-selling-bitcoins-via-telegram\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian woman duped by scammer selling bitcoins via Telegram"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 38-year-old woman from Abakan lost almost 100,000 rubles while attempting to buy bitcoins. The <a href=\\\"https:\/\/\u0430\u0431\u0430\u043a\u0430\u043d.19.\u043c\u0432\u0434.\u0440\u0444\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"noopener noreferrer\\\">\u0441\u043e\u043e\u0431\u0449\u0430\u0435\u0442<\/a> site of the local police.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>A Russian woman interacted with a cryptocurrency seller via Telegram. To complete the deal, the scammer asked her to transfer about 96,000 rubles, after which she deleted the chat with the victim and stopped responding.<\/p>\n<p>A criminal case has been opened.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in Russia, authorities <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/crypto-fraud-in-russia-worth-more-than-500000-rubles-exposed\">uncovered<\/a> cryptocurrency fraud worth more than half a million rubles.<\/p>\n<p>To avoid becoming a victim of scammers, read ForkLog&#8217;s special report.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog&#8217;s news on Telegram: <a href=\\\"https:\/\/t.me\/forklogfeed\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\\\">ForkLog Feed<\/a> \u2014 the full feed of news, <a href=\\\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\\\">ForkLog<\/a> \u2014 the most important news and polls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 38-year-old woman from Abakan lost almost 100,000 rubles while trying to buy bitcoins. The local police site reports this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28101,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1154,1269,27,723],"class_list":["post-28100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-crimes","tag-cryptocurrencies","tag-russia","tag-telegram"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"14","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28100"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28102,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28100\/revisions\/28102"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}